The First Fleet – aka the 11 ships that brought the first batch of colonial settlers to Australia – is a phrase that to many signifies the beginning of ‘Australia’ as a European-inhabited land, and first major threat to the country’s Indigenous cultures. When those ships landed in Botany Bay, it was the first contact many First Nations people had had with European culture, and vice versa.
We spoke to Wanganeen about jugging multiple creative roles, and leading Australia’s first Indigenous sci-fi.
